Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1867

State v. . Merritt

State v. . Merritt
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided January 5, 1867 · Reads
61 N.C. 134
State v. . Merritt

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Opinion of the Court

Reads, J.

There was no specific instruction prayed for,, and no specific exception taken below or in this court. We-are therefore left to collect from the whole of the Judge’s charge and from the record, whether there was any error.

Only two questions seem to be involved:

1. Whether an indiscriminate assault upon several is an assault upon each individual ? Very clearly it is.

2. Whether when a gun is fired by one defendant, andl the other is present aiding and abetting, the shooting may be charged to have been done by both ? The act of one is-the act of both, and it may be so charged.

Let it be certified that there is no error.

Per Curiam. There is no error

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